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Posts Social Shares Count

Description

About

You can use this plugin to get the number of shares for a given post by ID.

How to use

To count for example how many times the post or page has been shared on Facebook use the function echo pssc_facebook() in the loop or echo pssc_facebook( $post_id ) anywhere. This function will return the count integer for example 5 or 0.

Or you can use the shortcode [pssc_facebook] in the post you want to count shares for or [pssc_facebook post_id=””] for a specific post by ID.

Available Shortcodes

  • [pssc_facebook]
  • [pssc_pinterest]
  • [pssc_linkedin]
  • [pssc_delicious]
  • [pssc_stumble]
  • [pssc_gplus]
  • [pssc_all]

Available Functions

  • pssc_facebook()
  • pssc_pinterest()
  • pssc_linkedin()
  • pssc_delicious()
  • pssc_stumble()
  • pssc_gplus()
  • pssc_all()

Note that PHP functions needs to be echoed.

Change Log

  • Version 1.4.1: Removed Twitter functions due Twitter’s disabling their count API.
  • Version 1.4.0: Fixed some bugs and added Posts Social Shares Count to edit posts/pages/custom post types list view in admin (edit.php).
  • Version 1.3.1: Fixed a bug with caching.
  • Version 1.3: Added caching support and Added total shares count to post edit page.
  • Version 1.2: Fixed a bug with functions without post ID usage.
  • Version 1.1: Fixed a bug with pssc_all shortcode

Screenshots

  • Shares count in admin edit post view
  • Shares count in admin edit post/pages/post types list view

Installation

  1. Go to your admin area and select Plugins -> Add new from the menu.
  2. Search for \”Posts Social Shares Count\”.
  3. Click install.
  4. Click activate.

Reviews

December 16, 2016
The Problem is that facebook change the json, and you can fix the problem by edit this file wp-content/plugins/posts-social-shares-count/classes/share.count.php and go to function pssc_facebook and change the code inside it with this code $json_string = $this->file_get_contents_curl( 'https://graph.facebook.com/?id='.$this->url ); $json = json_decode( $json_string, true ); return isset( $json['share']['share_count'] ) ? intval( $json['share']['share_count']) : 0;
September 26, 2016
... slows down wordpress. had to deacitvate it. nothing more to say. google+ doesn't work, twitter doesn't work anymore because of its api. now facebook is gone because of api 2.7.
September 3, 2016
Does what it says it will do. Had a small issue with cURL under a specific server setup, but otherwise it works great!
September 3, 2016
Was looking high and low for a total share counter with caching support, and this plugin was definitely the most helpful!
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Contributors & Developers

“Posts Social Shares Count” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.4.1

  • Bug fixes
  • Disabled Twitter functions because Twitter has disabled their count API. See this blog post

1.4.0

  • Added Posts Social Shares Count to edit posts/pages/custom post types list view in admin (edit.php).
  • Fixed PHP notices that displayed randomly.
  • Fixed Issue for users with PHP safe_mode or open_basedir set on.
  • Fixed Issue with Pinterest count to always 0.

1.3.1

  • Fixed a bug with caching

1.3

  • Added Caching support
  • Improved performance
  • Added total shares count to post edit page

1.2

  • Fixed a bug with functions without post ID usage.

1.1

  • Fixed a bug with [pssc_all] shortcode

1.0

  • Initial Plugin Release